Note 321 — CIVITATIS AMOR, &c.
Reading edition
say] Is commonly explained—“a thin sort of silk,”—“a species of silk, or rather satin.”—Malone (note on Shakespeare’s Henry Sixth, Part Second, act iv. sc. 7,) remarks, “it appears from Minsheu’s Dict., 1617, that say was a kind of serge.” Cotgrave has “Seyette, serge, or sey.”